Man Hospitalized After Assault Outside Bremerton Bar

A 22-year-old man was taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle early Thursday morning after being assaulted outside a Bremerton bar, according to Bremerton police reports.

Police responded to the bar in the 600 block of Callow Avenue around 1:45 a.m. Thursday and found the man, whose address was listed as the USS John C. Stennis, with a severely swollen left eye, bleeding and appearing groggy.

A woman told an officer that while she did not see an assault take place, she did see people standing around the victim. The report said a 21-year-old Bremerton man admitted to the assault and was booked into the Kitsap County jail in lieu of $50,000 bail after being arrested on suspicion of second-degree assault. The reason for the alleged assault is unclear.

The injured man was sent first to Harrison Medical Center in Bremerton, but hospital officials told police later that the man was taken to Harborview for treatment of an orbital fracture, which is the series of bones around the eye.